Houston National Golf Club

So this is my first time I was on a business trip and I thought hey let me try. This course looks great. Looks like it’s got great reviews. So the first big noticeable portion of the course that was pretty bad was the driving range, mats were worn down the entire driving range was nothing but sand. Range balls they only have one size apparently nine dollars gray small bucket of 25 maybe. The golf cart that I got in covered in Bird poop had to talk to one of the cart guys for them to hand me a tell to clean it off. One of the good things that did come from this was that I was paired up with a really nice guy by the name of Chuck. It was his first time playing the course both of us agreed amazing. I’m talking about fun amazing course Leo. Course conditions on the other hand fairways were horrible patchy dry the greens. Let me tell you something about the greens. The greens were fair fair condition. I did like them. They weren’t too bad bunkers you couldn’t play in the bunkers maybe one or bunker, but most of them weren’t. Look at the end of the day. I’ll just say this the layout was awesome and amazing when I come back yeah I’d come back. Fix the course conditions improve your driving range. Give me a different size of a bucket of range balls and you might want to lower the green fee definitely not worth 50 to 75. Houston national I know you can do better.

I generally don’t write bad reviews and at this price point there really shouldn’t be a lot to complain about, but it seems like they’ve given up on the course.

Before I get into the bad, I will say that the greens are decently maintained rolling fairly quickly for a public course and generally roll true around the pin placements they had today.

The bad:

The fairways were extremely dry and on most holes the grass was not maintained well at all. They have a serious poa annua problem so between the hardpan and the weeds you will get a lot of bad lies in the fairway.

The rough is also very poorly maintained. You are either in deep uncut rough or on a hill with no grass if you miss the fairway. This is my biggest complaint. there’s no attempt to rope off the areas on the many hills on this course that have absolutely no grass on them to allow the grass to grow back.

There has been zero effort to maintain the bunkers as well. It is clear that they have not been machine raked in weeks and there are weeds growing out of them.

Like I said at the start, I’m not generally picky at this price point about conditions, but when it is clear that there is no effort being put into the maintenance of this course it does not make for a fun round. The maintenance of this course also makes it play extremely harder than the rating with these green complexes.

I’m very expensive course that does not deliver for the price. The fairways full of weeds, uneven surface.

Course was in remarkably good condition for this time of year.

Fun course lay out. Water and other hazards are

Good. Biggest issue is bunkers need new sand, and still lots of dead areas in fairways. (These were not caused by a recent freeze) also no beverage service on national course even though they provide one for the sterling course.

Absolutely no one out there, course was in bad shape. If I hadn’t had a hot deal I would’ve been mad. It has good bones, but in need of some plastic surgery.

Houston National is ok at best. The course was bare at many spots along the fairway. The greens were ok for February. We paid 75 at 230pm which is questionable. 45-55 would be appropriate.

This course was in terrible condition. Grass was missing everywhere. Mud and dirt filled the majority of the fairways and rough. 1 hole had standing water in the middle of the fairway. They still charged everyone full price. I would not recommend this course to anyone

Trees and greens were very good. Fairways were patchy.

Played this course several times over the years and I will say worst I have ever seen it. Bare spots in fairways, bunkers as hard as concrete, a group of 6 players in front of us. The only positive was the starter. Nice guy fell over trying to help on the first tee. In the club house your treated as an outsider, I guess because they have members there. Won’t be returning to play this course any time soon….

The fairway and greens are awesome. But the sand traps are unplayable. Most are filled with water and some are falling apart on the edges. There a ton of sand traps